New Mac Pro 2.8 and Problems with Aperture

Hi,
I just bought a new Mac Pro 2.8 with the standard 2GB of RAM. My main application is Aperture. Since I loaded it and pointed to my library, the system runs *very* slow when I am in Aperture. I get a lot of spinning wheels for everything I do ... including just switching between pictures. My library is ~130GB and when I tried importing my iPhoto 8 library, it crashed. Now when I try to delete the import project, Aperture hangs. I am very surprised by all of this. Any thoughts or suggestions?
An interesting side note, iPhoto with 140GB library works great.
Mac Pro 2.8, 2GB, 320GB Drive, 130GB Aperture Library, Leopard 10.5.1
Thanks,
-chris

Chris-
Unfortunately Apple reps are seldom good counselors as regards application performance. They are after all retail sales people, not users. Better advice is available from user forums typically populated by folks with years of real-world usage experience as well as education beyond that typically found in retail sales.
RAM is inexpensive now, so IMO MPs should have more RAM, adding two 2-GB sized DIMMs as a minimum add. For heavy apps like Adobe CS or Aperture I recommend adding 8 GB RAM, always minimum 2-GB sized DIMMs to avoid wasting limited slots. IMO RAM is the cheapest performance enhancer and most of us handling heavy graphics will want even more RAM, all slots, over the life of a new MP.
I would recommend buying 4-GB sized DIMMs except that they currently cost much more per GB.
Aperture has always required an advanced graphics card for good performance, even with MP towers. Do not be surprised if adding RAM does not provide a magic bullet. If you use Aperture professionally you will want to add an 8800 GT card.
All that said, Aperture ran adequately on my MBP even with the stock 2 GB RAM. Odds are very high that the slowdown you observe is not simply hardware based. I strongly recommend that you carefully pursue every one of the points discussed in the excellent Bagleturf speed discussion, and especially get fully conversant with Previews alternative settings.
Please describe your hard drive(s) configuration, including how full, since mass storage also bears heavily on performance.
Good luck!
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